National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is our family's all-time favorite movie and much of our light display is themed after the movie classic. In addition to using songs from the limited edition soundtrack we also have clips from the movie.

The big new element to the 2011 light display was snowflakes, lots of them. After seeing the Saks 5th Avenue display I wanted to do a Carol of the Bells song. While browsing around Amazon I came across Callann Lane's version, which turned out to be one of our most favorite for this year's Display.

We don't run the lights when there is rain and for 2011 we saw tons of rain in December. Luckily we put this Singing in the Rain sequence in place. These lights are all safely under cover on the porch so we have them singing in the rain until everything dries out.